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Iran is prepared to resume nuclear talks with the United States as long as it is handled with "dignity" and "honor", Tehran's foreign minister has stated.

The Iranian diplomat said solely negotiations produced results, and revealed new appeals had been made by go-betweens to restart talks with the US government. He claimed Iran had zero unreported enrichment locations, and Iran was not yet able to permit the global atomic watchdog to visit struck enrichment centers for safety concerns.

Navigating a Difficult Route

Araghchi is treading a complex course since Iran aims to avoid appear to be acting from a position of disadvantage, and he insisted repeatedly that Iran had emerged stronger in military terms and mentally from the joint assault on its enrichment centers in June.

He was speaking at a security conference in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "an absolute privilege to enrich uranium domestically that it will perpetually retain" – the main reason of the deadlock in the earlier negotiations.

Prior Negotiations Suddenly Terminated

The earlier sessions of discussions between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and acrimonious conclusion on 12 June when Israel, with American backing, struck Iran's enrichment centers in a two-week conflict that concluded with the US president claiming the locations had been eliminated. Afterward, EU nations employed their right to restore global restrictions, but Iran maintains they have not had a substantial consequence.

Ideal Resolution Offered

Iran's diplomats claimed they felt they had reached a "perfect agreement" to the uranium processing matter in earlier negotiations, when it was settled an domestic cooperative with American involvement could process nuclear material. Both sides would have been able to declare success since local refinement would have remained and the US could be confident that Iran's atomic project was entirely non-military.

It had not been settled in the talks that Washington's technical specialists could work on Iranian soil, but that was a reasonable assumption of the consortium proposal. Officials claimed on multiple occasions they had secured an understanding with Washington's diplomat the US official only for the deal to disintegrate due to "opponents in the US".

Present Position

Tehran representatives stated the cooperative arrangement was now no longer available, but it seems quite possible the suggestion could be reintroduced in some form if negotiations resume.

The American leader in recent days said he had been obtaining communications that Iran wanted to reopen negotiations, but privately Iran's diplomats claim they are not yet getting clear proposals from Washington either straightforwardly or from significant local go-betweens, such as Qatar, Egypt, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Iran's state department has been criticized of passivity in the wake of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Tehran says dialogue is not part of a spectacle.

Political Standpoint

In his address to the forum, designed to depict the US as a controlling nation that misuses the concept of global regulations, the foreign minister declared the 12-day war revealed the clash could not be settled by combat operations. He asserted the strikes commenced with a US demand for an complete Tehran capitulation and concluded with an unconditional call for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is assured the initial Israeli attacks were mounted with full US knowledge and cooperation, making trust hard to restore.

Negotiations Continues the Final Solution

Araghchi said: "Tehran was not the one that had fled negotiations; it was the United States and the European states that had consistently attempted to dictate their desires during the discussions. Negotiations can still be viable and continues the primary resolution to settle disagreements, but its standards, guidelines and fundamentals must be respected."

"Provided that they speak to the citizens of Tehran with the approach of respect and respect, they will obtain a answer in the same language."

Restoration and Rebuilding

In what is characterized by Tehran representatives as the battle of restoration and reconstruction, the foreign minister claimed he was confident Iran's military capacities "have significantly improved than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been rebuilt. We acquired numerous insights from this engagement; we have discovered our own weaknesses and the vulnerabilities of the adversary."

He continued: "We effectively endured this conflict. Our nuclear technology, which they aimed to obliterate, continues to exist. The sites and machinery, if destroyed, will be reconstructed; what is crucial is the will of the nation of Iran and then the unity of the country that they sought to undermine, but failed to destroy. The Iranian people have become more powerful, more integrated, and more endorsing of the government and the state in the aftermath of this attack."